Creation Merit

At this moment, Pangu had fully comprehended all 129,600 Laws of Strength, but his mental energy was also completely exhausted.

Even the Pangu Axe had developed cracks, and the Jade Plate of Creation was on the verge of shattering.

In the endless Chaos, the Eye of the Great Dao manifested, staring down at Pangu.

"I have one axe stroke that can open Heaven and Earth!" Pangu roared as he charged upward, swinging his axe.

The entire Chaos World seemed to split open, and Li Xinghe watched in shock, as if he could see the world beyond Chaos.

"In the world beyond Chaos, dig, dig, dig—whatever treasures I dig up, I bring them all home."

Li Xinghe frantically urged the Chaos Shovel, digging a few times into that mysterious void, eventually unearthing two mysterious streams of energy.

The next moment, the Chaos gap closed, and Divine Thunder of the Great Dao descended from the heavens, nearly shattering the Pangu Axe, while Pangu himself almost died under the Divine Thunder of the Great Dao.

"As expected, the Three Thousand Demon Gods drained Big Brother's strength, and the Great Dao's punishment has arrived." Li Xinghe sighed.

Pangu seemed to sense something; breaking through Chaos was now impossible, so he had no choice but to follow Second Brother's plan and open a new realm.

With that thought, he stopped resisting the Great Dao and instead directly carved out a new world within Chaos itself.

Endless Earth Fire Wind Water surged, Chaos energy receded, and the outline of a world took shape.

Clear energy rose to form the heavens, turbid energy sank to form the earth—this was the Primordial World.

"Too barren!" Pangu waved his hand, casting all the flesh and blood of the Demon Gods who had fallen in Chaos into it.

"Still not enough!" Unable to bear the pressure of opening the heavens, the Thirty-Six-Grade Chaos Green Lotus beneath his feet disintegrated and fell into the Primordial World.

Yet there was nothing to support Heaven and Earth, which seemed about to merge again. Pangu swung his axe once more, and finally, the Pangu Axe and the Jade Plate of Creation, unable to withstand the pressure of opening the heavens, shattered into fragments and vanished between Heaven and Earth.

"Still not working!" Pangu took a step forward, planting his feet on the earth and raising his hands to support the sky. His Demon God body grew wildly, propping Heaven and Earth apart.

And at last, he exhausted his final shred of strength and completely perished.

Afterward, his spine transformed into Buzhou Mountain, supporting Heaven and Earth;

his left eye became the sun, his right eye the moon;

his blood turned into rivers nourishing the land;

his flesh became soil, his hair and fur became grass and trees.

Deep within Buzhou Mountain, Pangu's Heart transformed into the Pangu Temple, where the last twelve drops of his Essence Blood gestated.

Meanwhile, his Primordial Spirit split into three clear streams of energy and vanished between Heaven and Earth.

And at this very moment in the Chaos World, Li Xinghe gazed at the Primordial World before him with deep emotion. The Three Thousand Demon Gods had become nothing more than fertilizer for the Primordial World.

But he knew that many of the top-level Demon Gods hadn't truly perished; what had been slain was merely their physical bodies, while fragments of their true spirits had already slipped into the Primordial World.

Soon, these Demon Gods would reincarnate into the Primordial World, taking form using their original flesh and blood.

However, some might have so little of their true spirit left that they would even forget their past lives' identities.

That was fine too—it saved him from having them all resurrect and come looking for payback.

The only thing to be thankful for was that That Old Man Chaos was utterly annihilated, soul and all. Without the protection of the Chaos Pearl, he was just a Small Fry under Pangu's axe.

As for Hongjun and Luohu, they carried great fortune; it probably wouldn't be so easy for them to fall.

Regardless, he still needed to find a Dao field first. After some consideration, he ultimately chose the only temple Pangu had left behind in the world as his Dao field.

In the entire Primordial World, this was the only thing Pangu himself had left behind, and in the future, the Twelve Ancestral Witches would also take form here.

This was also the key to resurrecting Pangu in the future. In the later Witch-Demon Calamity, the Twelve Ancestral Witches had originally summoned Pangu's true body, a sure-win situation, but Hongjun interfered in the end, causing both the Witch and Demon races to decline completely.

Hongjun used such methods to constantly influence everything in the Primordial World, slowly erasing Pangu's traces.

And now, with Heaven and Earth first settled, the Great Dao manifested and finally bestowed the Creation Merit.

Among them, the Three Pure Ones, as Pangu's Primordial Spirit, took three-tenths of the Creation Merit, while the Witch Race, born from Pangu's Essence Blood, took one-tenth.

Of the remaining six-tenths, one-tenth combined with the Profound Yellow energy formed during the creation of Heaven and Earth to condense into the acquired Merit Supreme Treasure, the Heaven and Earth Exquisite Profound Yellow Pagoda.

One-tenth became the acquired Merit Supreme Treasure, the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler—killing without incurring karmic sin, a killing treasure second only to the Pangu Banner.

Another two-tenths belonged to the Primordial World itself, benefiting all things in Heaven and Earth.

The final two-tenths fell upon Li Xinghe. Everything went as he had planned; his contribution in coaxing Pangu to open the heavens earned him a share of the Creation Merit.

"The Three Pure Ones only got three-tenths, and I alone have two-tenths—advantage is mine." Li Xinghe thought smugly.

And his choice of the Pangu Temple as his Dao field wasn't without reason, because the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler was born right inside the Pangu Temple.

As for the other treasure, the Heaven and Earth Exquisite Profound Yellow Pagoda, it probably hadn't emerged yet. Following the original trajectory, it would eventually fall into the hands of Grand Pure One Laozi.

If he added the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler, that meant he alone held three-tenths of the Creation Merit—considering the entire Primordial World only got two-tenths.

Most importantly, the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler killed without incurring karmic sin—that was the ability he valued most.

He remembered when he used to read Primordial World novels, what annoyed him most was all that talk about karma and sin. Killing someone required endless deliberation, afraid of being weighed down by karmic debt.

And crucially, as an acquired Merit Supreme Treasure, it could be used directly without needing to be refined.

Otherwise, with his Chaos Shovel, Chaos Pearl, and Ancestor Qiankun's Qiankun Cauldron, who knew how long it would take to refine them just to unleash some power.

Fortunately, now that he had two-tenths of the Creation Merit, it would be enough to sustain him for a very long time.

By his estimate, once this merit was consumed, the treasures should be mostly refined, and his own strength would be greatly enhanced.

According to the Primordial World's setting, starting from the Immortal realm, the ranks are divided into Earth Immortal, Heavenly Immortal, True Immortal, Golden Immortal, Primordial Unity Golden Immortal, and Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal.

After that comes the Quasi-Saint, and finally the Saint.

The cultivation levels in the Chaos are mostly the same, with the difference being that after Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal, it is called Golden Immortal of the Origin (Quasi-Saint), followed by Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal of the Origin (Saint).

For example, among the Three Thousand Demon Gods back then, all were at the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal of the Origin level, and a few of the top existences were even at the Hunyuan Taiji Grand Unity Golden Immortal (Heavenly Dao Realm), while Pangu was the even more powerful Hunyuan Wuji Grand Unity Golden Immortal.

But Li Xinghe was in no hurry to digest the Creation Merit now. The Primordial World had just been established, with no living beings yet, and treasures were everywhere.

Even if some beings had been born, they were all weaklings. As a dignified Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal wielding multiple Chaos Supreme Treasures, he could be said to be invincible under heaven.

Before that, he wanted to take a walk across the Primordial World—perhaps he would encounter some opportunities.

After all, from what he remembered, the Primordial World still had quite a few heaven-defying treasures.

Especially the great sucker Chaos Green Lotus. Aside from the three Innate Supreme Treasures transformed from the Pangu Axe, all the notable treasures in the Primordial World were born from the Chaos Green Lotus.

For example, the God Slaying Spear, the Twelve-Grade Golden Lotus of Merit, the Twelve-Grade Red Lotus of Karma Fire, the Twelve-Grade White Lotus of Purity, and the Twelve-Grade Black Lotus of World Destruction.

Even the weapons of the Three Pure Ones were all transformed from the lotus flowers, lotus roots, and lotus leaves of the Chaos Green Lotus.

Some treasures might not yet be ripe for emergence, but who was Li Xinghe? He carried the two great laws of Time and Fate, and his Chaos Supreme Treasure itself bore innate luck—just digging randomly would surely unearth some treasure.

With that thought, he took a single step and left Buzhou Mountain, then used the power of Time and Fate to deduce, locking onto a direction and flying off.